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o'er

1 American  
[awr, ohr] / ɔr, oʊr /

preposition

Literary.
  1. contraction of over.


OER 2 American  
o'er British  
/ əʊə, ɔː /

preposition

  1. a poetic contraction of over

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Now with the warm earth o’er thy breast, O wisest of thy kind and best, Forever mayst thou softly rest, In pace, Peter!

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023

All we go down to the dust; and, weeping o'er the grave we make our song:

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2022

Hamlet did not want his capacity for action to be “sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2022

“Together they sleep on the sloping green Where the flowers bloom ‘neath the sunlight beam And the soft breezes sigh through the willow tree That nods o’er the grave in the sunny Shawnee.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 17, 2019

The pups was squirming and sliding o’er one the ’nother, carrying on something fierce, nipping at anything that moved, not caring if they was biting their brother or sister or even their own selfs.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis